Sauro Succi is an Italian scientist, internationally credited for being one of the founders of the successful Lattice Boltzmann method for fluid dynamics and soft matter.From 1995 to 2018, Succi has been Research Director at the Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo of the National Research Council (CNR) in Rome. Since 2018, he has been appointed Principal Investigator of the research line Computational Medicine at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).